Report of the 2004 Uniform Regional Scab Nursery for Spring Wheat Parents

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coordinator:  David F. Garvin

USDA-ARS, Plant Science Research Unit

411 Borlaug Hall, University of Minnesota

1991 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul, MN 55108

 

Report prepared by: David F. Garvin and Zachary Blankenheim

 

 

 

The Uniform Regional Scab Nursery for Spring Wheat Parents (URSN) was grown for the 10th year in 2004.  Six mist-irrigated locations at Brookings, SD, St. Paul and Crookston, MN, Prosper and Langdon, ND, and Glenlea, Manitoba, Canada, and two locations where supplemental mist irrigation was not used (“dryland screening locations”) at St. Paul and Crookston, MN were planted in 2004.  The Glenlea location encountered problems and thus is not included in this annual report.

 

A total of 45 entries were included in the 2004 URSN, including the resistant checks 2375, BacUp, and ND2710, and the susceptible checks Wheaton and Oslo.  The other 40 entries were contributed by university, industry, or national breeding programs.  Four of these entries were durums, and five were USDA PI genotypes that are possible new sources of scab resistance.

 

A core set of traits evaluated provided from most locations included incidence of scab, scab severity, disease index, and visual scabby kernel ratings (VSK, @ tombstone).  Additional recorded trait data are presented in the relevant individual location tables.  Overall means for traits across locations are presented, as are relative rankings for scab incidence, severity, disease index, and VSK.  Correlation coefficients are provided between scab incidence and severity, disease index, VSK, and DON.

 

 

 

 

This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the U.S. Wheat & Barley Scab Initiative.  Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

 

 

St. Paul, MN

January, 2005

 

CONTENTS	PAGE
Cooperating Agencies, Stations and Personnel	1
Table 1.  List of Entries in the 2004 URSN	2
Tables 2-6.  Nursery Data by Individual Location, Mist-Irigated Locations	3-7
Table 7.  Trait Means Across Mist-Irrigated Locations, with Rankings	8
Tables 8-9.  Nursery Data by Individual Location, Dryland Locations	9-10
Table 10.  Trait Means Across Dryland Locations, and Rankings	11
Table 11.  Correlation Coefficients Among Traits	12
Table 12.  Correlation Coefficients, Mist-Irrigated vs. Dryland Means	13

 

 

Cooperators for the 2004 Uniform Regional Scab Nursery for Spring Wheat Parents

 

 

North Dakota State University (Prosper):

Mohamed Mergoum and Robert Stack

 

 

North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (Langdon):

John Lukach

 

 

South Dakota State University (Brookings):

Karl Glover

 

 

University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Crookston):

Jim Anderson, Ruth Dill-Macky, John Wiersma, and Kent Evans

 

 

Agri-Food Canada, Glenlea, Manitoba:

Jeannie Gilbert and Gavin Humphreys